Laughing in Rhythm [Box set, Import]

Slim Gaillard | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 18, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 4
• Format: Box set, Import
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Proper Box UK
• ASIN: B0000A1WPD
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #83,165 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #35 in Music > Jazz > Vocal Jazz > Vocalese
  • #46 in Music > Jazz > Jive Jazz

Track Listings

1. Theres No Two Ways About It

2. Cause My Baby Says Its So

3. The Flat Foot Floogie

4. Chinatown My Chinatown

5. 8 9 And 10

6. Ferdinand The Bull

7. Tutti Frutti

8. Look A There

9. Jump Session

10. Laughin In Rhythm

11. Vol Vist Du Gaily Star

12. Dopey Joe

13. Sweet Safronia

14. Its Gettin Kinda Chilly

15. Buck Dance Rhythm

16. Thats A Bringer

17. A Well A Take Em Joe (Crapshooters Jive)

18. Chicken Rhythm

19. Swingin In The Key Of C

20. Boot Ta La Za

See all 99 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

A four CD set with the customary exemplary Properbox standard of packaging and presentation. Includes a 44 page illustrated booklet with authoritative biography and full discographical details. One of the most eccentric vocalists ever to hit the jazz scene, Gaillard became a legendary cult figure thanks to his own privately invented jive dialect "vout'.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jumpin'!, September 30, 2006

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GameraGal (Sydney) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Laughing in Rhythm (Audio CD)

I'll confess to an ongoing amour with the proper box set. I can't believe something this cheap (let's face it...the price is incredible!) is consistently of such high quality. They look great, feel nice, are beautifully packaged, and include booklets (yes! tiny books) with great info on and pics of their subjects.

So what about Slim? Well this cat is jumpin'. He is high class and hilarious...what a great combination. And there's suprising variety through this invariably rhythmic set. Most tracks are upbeat and you could fill up the CD shuffler and dance to this all night. I just can't believe his name isn't as familiar to us as the likes of Louis Jordan.

I was a bit worried about all this vouting...this guy sounded like he could get really annoying...and he wouldn't be around so you could slap him in the face and tell him to snap out of it. But he only indulges in sporadic vouting binges and they are only occasionally obtrusive.

When I bought this I thought I'd probably select songs and boil it down in to one excellent CD I could love unconditionally. But this cat doesn't let you down...which has made for a least one very happy kitten.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Three Stooges + Bebop = Slim Gaillard, August 1, 2004

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andy7 (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Laughing in Rhythm (Audio CD)

Slim Gaillard is what you get when you combine slapstick humor with bebop jazz. Even Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie couldn't resist playing on his records-they appear on a few tracks on this great 4 CD box set.

Did I mention you get 30 tracks per disc making this the deal of the century? Such a deal! For the low price listed above you get at least 120 tracks of pure Slim brilliance. I have to warn you, though, his sense of humor is very non-PC but also not mean spirited, either. He lampoons every ethnic group under the sun including his own (in "African Jive" he runs down a soul food menu to a tribal African beat).

I also liked his enthusiasm for ethnic food, particularly Jewish delicacies:

Matzo Balls (sung Jimmy Durante style), Dunkin' Bagels ("splash! in the coffee"), and the classic Potato Chips ("crunch crunch I don't want no lunch").

Recommended tracks: Popity Pop, Atomic Cocktail, Dopey Joe, B-19, Palm Springs Jump, Little Red Riding Woods, Tee Say Malee, etc. I could go and on. Dunk some bagels and enjoy!

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Slim Gaillard is a musical genius, August 27, 2006

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A Customer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Laughing in Rhythm (Audio CD)

When you're young, it's quite fashionable to bemoan the lack of authentic individuals. When you grow older, you learn that you were correct. My Cherokee ancestors believe that adulthood begins at 51, and as I get closer to that age, I realize how right they are. Well, here's an individual for you. Slim Gaillard.

I have a four-CD set called LAUGHING IN RHYTHM. 1937 through 1952 from one of the great innovators in jazz. Musically creative, technically skillful, always soulful, lyrically hilarious, and perhaps an example of somebody under age 51 achieving adulthood. I can't stop listening to it. At home, in my MP3 player on the buses of China... Lemme get nuts here. If you ignore every other review I've ever written, note these three words. "Buy this one." It's like that, folks. Slim is da bomb.